The Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church appointed to Crimea compared the peninsula with Kolyma
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Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov), recently appointed head of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) Metropolis in Crimea, addressed the brothers and parishioners of the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery and compared the annexed peninsula with Kolyma.
“What is Krym? What was Krym in Ancient Greece, in Byzantium? Kolyma! This is Kolyma! This is Krym for us, and for them it was a place where people did not live normally. They sent Chrysostom and Clement, the Pope of Rome, there . To Kolyma! Here I am – to the resorts of Kolyma,” said Tikhon.
On October 11, the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church released the priest from the post of head of the Pskov Metropolis and appointed him the head of the Krymskoy. It was not specified what the reason for such a decision was.
Metropolitan Tikhon was called the hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, close to Vladimir Putin and even the confessor of the Russian president. In March, Shevkunov caught the footage of Putin’s first visit to Crimea after the start of the war with Ukraine.
As the chairman of the Patriarchal Council for Culture, the metropolitan advocated the transfer of Andrei Rublev’s “Trinity” icon from the Tretyakov Gallery to the possession of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Investigative journalists claimed that Tikhon received billions of rubles from the state budget as grants for his projects.
The Metropolitan is also known for blocking the work on the law on combating domestic violence, which was supposed to be submitted to the State Duma at the end of 2019.
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